Dot Net Mafia

Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) .NET, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, SharePoint Online, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

This is kind of a strange error that I sometime receive when trying to startup a crawl in Enterprise Search. I have only received it on MOSS servers with the Infrastructure Update applied, but it might occur on other versions as well. The issue is when I try to start a crawl (on a BDC content...

I have been working on creating a new Windows Server 2008 virtual machine lately, so I decided to grab the latest version of VSeWSS 1.3 . I immediately encountered the following error when trying to install. Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements. The...

This is kind of a weird issue and I ran into it the last two times I setup a MOSS virtual machine, so I thought I would take a moment to tell about it today. I am a Windows Server 2008 virtual machine. This server is a DC and also has SQL Server 2008 installed. In my particular case...

Last week, I demonstrated how to call the Enterprise Search web service to get search results to a colleague. I pointed him to my post on querying a web service and he was able to easily put the code together to call the web service. However, when his code called the service, he got the following...

There seems to be a huge plague of the following error sweeping through the SharePoint community right now. This occurs when you go to the Search Settings page on your SSP. You will probably notice it before this by a user trying to search and getting an error. Here is the text. The search service is...

When every page on your SharePoint server returns an error, more often than not, SharePoint was unable to enter Safe Mode. Safe Mode is the process in which SharePoint goes through to validate that web controls are allowed to be used in SharePoint. If something goes wrong in this process, you will get...

I am astonished with how many public facing SharePoint sites are out there without this problem fixed. You know the one I am talking about. The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control' from 'Microsoft Corporation'. If you trust the Web site and the add-on and...

I was working on an Enterprise Search deployment the other day and I encountered this lovely error. I found the answer buried in some forum posts, but I wanted to tell you what side effects I found when implementing the solution (and I wanted to make sure I could find the answer again someday when I...

If you are like me, you go to the SharePoint logs folder often in an attempt to try and resolve various errors you may encounter when working with SharePoint. I noticed on some of my servers, that I was receiving an entry similar to the one below in my log file. 04/17/2008 10:45:52.99 wsstracing.exe...

As you may know SharePoint has its own internal security groups that you can map Active Directory users and groups into. This lets you create custom security groups without having to store them in Active Directory. This is not always a best practice but there are times that you may want to do this. Using...